I just did a runaround with Kerio Mailserver. I thought I'd be smart and
upgrade from 6.1.4 to 6.2.2, so I did the download, used alien to convert
the rpm to deb, and installed the new version, and restarted the mail 
server. Of course, it wasn't as easy as that, because they renamed the 
package from kerio-mailserver to kerio-kms, but the short version is that
my mail server was down for over 20 minutes because -- surprise! -- my
license for 6.1 doesn't cover 6.2, and so the kerio mailserver services
were disabled. I tried going to the kerio website to purchase a newer 
license, but lo and behold that option is gone, replaced with a message
"please contact one of our partner resellers to purchase an upgrade."

Well, I'm sitting here with a disabled mail server, after hours, staring
at a list of resellers that mostly give out email addresses and phone
numbers instead of actual web addresses, just knowing it will be a couple
days before I actually have the needed license in my possession. I went 
through the entire list and only one site out of about 20 had an actual
online store. However, in order to see the available products to buy I
had to first email them to get a login. Oooh what a delicious waste of
time!

So, after re-downloading 6.1.4 and reinstalling it, I think I won't 
upgrade after all. And I'll post a dialog that strikes me as completely
stupid, and not just because of the grammar error: the program wants me
to downgrade my installed Qt library to the *exact version* required by
the kerio admin program. I guess they figured Linux could use some of
Window's DLL Hell?

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